A few schools in Jaipur have started using a mobile app and cloud networking system to make the school management web-based. By making use of the app, parents can have access their children's daily attendance, activity photos, home assignments, progress report, fee-deposit status, etc., through child's on-line account, reports Rajasthan Patrika.

It seems that the SmartClasses, on-line learning and
web-based information sharing are becoming a fashion with the schools
by switching over to intimating the daily attendance of students to
parents and students through smart phones along with the school
activities. The use of grade-wise websites, cloud networking and
pod-casting are becoming the new educational fashion statements.

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Focus

The much sought after schools of Jaipur are engaging
the information and communication technology (ICT) companies with
technological inputs and solutions, and buying their softwares
through direct purchase and easy-to-pay installments.

Earlier, the exclusive English medium schools were
considered to be better schools, but with most private schools
becoming English medium now and English being taught from grade one
even in government schools, the exclusive schools are switching over
to ICT as the new medium of instruction.

There is a distinct switch over from the
'language-divide' to the 'digital-divide' and the exclusive school
will forge ahead because of being 'rich schools' capable of buying
new and upgraded ICTs.

This is being done by embracing the SmartSchool (SS)
concept in a big way in exclusive schools catering education to the
children of rich and wealthy parents. A new rat race in school
education has started through equipping the schools with new and
upgraded ICTs much to the advantages of the market forces and higher
strata of society.

According to educational technologists working for
the market forces, SS is the school that makes use of ICT as a medium
of instruction through which teaching-learning expertise and skills
are made available to students both in the school as well as at the
home without compromising quality of information transfer through its
digitization and availability through the Internet via cloud
networking.

It is being held that the SS system will help
teachers bring more collaboration and interactivity into the
classroom to transform student learning processes and increase their
learning engagement.

Teaching through computer, Internet and
multimedia devices has become new mantra for modernity and fashion
statement in school education. That's why the exclusive 'public
schools' are converting themselves into SmartSchools with ICT as the
medium of instruction in their smart classrooms to remain exclusive.

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